Social media giant Twitter added voice tweets to its platform more than a year ago, and the move was met with severe criticism. The main problem with voice tweets is the lack of accessibility for the hearing impaired.
Twitter has announced that it is adding transcripts and captions to make voice tweets more accessible and inclusive. When you do a voice tweet now, the subtitles are automatically generated in the supported languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, French, Indonesian, Korean, and Italian.
We take your feedback and are getting the job done. To improve accessibility features, captions for voice tweets are rolling out today.
Now when you record a voice Tweet, the captions will be generated and displayed automatically. To view subtitles on the web, click the “CC” button. https://t.co/hrdI19Itu6 pic.twitter.com/pDlpOUgV6l
– Twitter support (@TwitterSupport) July 15, 2021
Although the ability to post voice tweets is only available when using the Twitter app on an iOS device, the listening and reading aspect of the feature is available to everyone, regardless of how you access the platform.
Click or hit the ‘CC’ icon in the upper right corner of the voice tweet window to view the captions in a tweet. Furthermore, as reported by The edge, the new transcription feature will only appear in new Voice Tweets.
In other Twitter news, the platform will shut down its Story-like Fleets feature on August 3.
Fountain: Twitter
